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Spring finally came to Canasta Street. The Carnaby children played stickball in the street. Old Mr. Whitten snored in the sunshine on his front porch. And the dirty grey snow that had been part of the landscape for so long magically retreated for another year. Nathan prepared to cross the stage as a high school graduate. Calla would be there as she’d always imagined, but she would not be alone. She’d have Landry on one side and Jazleen on the other. Nathan got a full-ride scholarship to Northwestern, which was everything they had hoped for. Jazleen, too, now had college as her goal, but it would take another year at least. Darlada had her baby, a healthy little girl. Surprisingly she’d moved in with the Gambles. Mrs. Gamble had suffered a fall late in the winter and Eunice realised that she needed help. Bringing Darlada and the baby into their household was like a tonic to the older woman and a breath of freedom for Eunice. Early one morning Landry came knocking at Calla’s door. She was still in her bathrobe and her hair was in a towel.

“Come outside,” he said.

“What?”

“I have something to show you.”

“Let me get dressed.”

“No time for clothes. You’ve got to come right now.” Calla followed him down the porch, out through the gate and around the fence to his backyard. There in the small plot of ground, just poking their little green shoots out of the brown earth, were the bulbs he had planted.

“It really happened,” she said.

“After all the cold, dark waiting, there are really going to be full-grown flowers here.” Landry nodded.

“And I want us to be together when our daffodils all come into bloom.” He held her hand in his and pulled her closer.

“Calla, you are the most stately flower in my garden. I don’t think it would even be a garden for me without you. Do you understand my meaning? It’s pretty muddy here, but I’ll drop down on one knee if I have to.” Calla smiled.

“I understand your meaning, Landry. And my answer is yes!”

THE END